Training Log Archive: dbakker

Easy run around Quail Flume trail in some of the biggest snowflakes I have ever seen.

Planning on getting out on a contours only map later in the week or this weekend of a super hilly park within running distance (if I run along the "under construction road" that hasn't been worked on in 3 months that I skied on Monday).

C • Contours only 2

Stretching legs mostly, calves are tight.

Still getting used to this whole 6 hours of labs business on Tuesdays - makes doing anything else rather difficult.

Finally getting back into some training again after a pitiful weekend of it. It froze pretty heavily again last night, so a crust developped again - so great conditions for skate skiing without any grooming. Unfortunately the Academy Hill slope that I use to get down to the field is south facing, and most of the snow has melted off of it, so had to walk further down today. Field at the bottom is in decent shape, a little soft on the western end (in the sun more), so stayed close to the edge in the shaded section. Got bored after a little while, so put on Hamilton. Ended up ditching the field with grass poking through it and climbed up onto the road that has been under construction for a while but is halted for the winter - only around 3-4 inches of snow, but on top of pavement so it was great!

One small section in the middle (where an intersection will be) had some pavement sticking through, so was unable to do intervals on the hill up towards Academy - so ended up just skiing back and forth towards the dump and back.

Now back to writing labs and pre-labs.

Travelling back to Kelowna and writing up labs...

6:20am - got up.
7:30 - Left for Ski Hill
7:55 - got to ski hill
8:10 - started timing equipment setup
8:55-9:20 - starting races (we had 420 some odd registrants this year!) with Mena
9:21am-1:30pm - finish line timing
1:30-2:15 - timing equipment takedown/clean-up
2:15-2:25 - down the hill to the ski shack (Lillian worked until 3:00), got changed into running stuff and started to run home until the car caught me.

Not a great day training wise, but good day volunteering wise - I love timing ski races.

Travelling back to Salmon Arm for the weekend.

Out for a run North of Quail ridge in the untouched snow. Absolutely stunning day, around +5°C, sun shinning with just a few little clouds in the sky. Couldn't exactly stay inside and write up my chem labs with that, so went for a good run. Right foot started hurting after the usual 20 minutes of running, but like last time went away after 10 more minutes. No idea what's up with that, but as long as this pattern holds and doesn't get worse I'm fine with it.

Running was pretty slow, lots of climb, lots of running in ~8 inches of wet snow, and then a bunch on packed down ice.

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